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Teaching the Qur’an Sharif with Love

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A Transcribed Talk of

Haleemul Ummat Hazrat Maulana Shah Hakeem

Muhammed Mazhar Saheb (Daamat Barakaatuhum)

• Chancellor – Ashraful Madaaris – Karachi

• Son of Aarifbillah Hazrat Maulana Shah Hakeem Muhammed Akhtar

Saheb (Rahimahullah)

• Khalifah - Muhiyyus Sunnah Hazrat Maulana Abrarul Haq Saheb

(Rahimahullah)


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Name of the Book: Teaching the Qur’an Sharif with Love

First Edition: Safar 1439 A.H, November 2017 A.D

Publisher: At Taqwa Madrasah - Durban, South Africa

Email: [email protected]


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Table of Contents

Background…………………………………………………….……...4

The Selection of Allah ……………………………………………...6

The Student Is a Prince…………………………….…………….…11

Psychological Treatment……………………………………………12

Corporal Punishment………………………………………………..16

Maintain Respect and Awe………………………………………….18

Love and Compassion………………………………………………19

Alternate Disciplinary Techniques …………………………….…..22

Correct Our Athaan and Salaah………………………………..….24

Cellphones in Salaah……………………………………………….26

Respect for the Quran Sharif within the Heart…………….……..29

Advice to Huffaaz…………………………………………….……...30

Conclusion……………………………………………………………31


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Background

باسمه تعالى

All praise be to Allah , for affording us the opportunity of being

involved in the publication of this talk delivered by my Sheikh, Haleemul

Ummat Hazrat Maulana Shah Hakeem Muhammed Mazhar Saheb

(Daamat Barakaatuhu).

This talk was delivered in Madrasah Da’watul Haq - Umzinto after the

Maghrib Salaah on Sunday 14 Jumadal Ukhra 1438 / 12 March 2017.

After the talk Hazrat summoned this weak servant and expressed his

desire that the talk be transcribed, since the advices were relevant and

may prove beneficial for the Asaatiza of Madrasahs and Darul Ulooms

Insha Allah. Many brothers who attended the programme also found

the talk to be unique and inspirational. Amongst others, we place on

record our apprecition to Hazrat Siddeeq Jakhura sb (D.b) for editing

this work.

May Allah perpetuate the benefit of this work till Qiyaamat and

accept the efforts of all those involved in its preparation.

May Allah grant Hazrat a long life with Aafiyat and spread his fuyooz

globally.

Yusuf Desai – Ml

Ameer / Principal - At Taqwa Madrasah (Durban, South Africa)

Safar 1439 / November 2017


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فى وسالم على عباده الذين اصطفىالحمد هلل وك

اما بعد فاعوذ باهلل من الشيطان الرجيم

بسم اهلل الرحمن الرحيم

O ye who believe! Fear Allah and be with those who are

true (in word and deed).

(Surah Taubah V.119)

وقال رسول اهلل صلى اهلل عليه وسلم

1 م ه ر آن و ع ل ر ر ك مر م نر ت ع ل م الر ق خ ي

Rasulullah said:” The best amongst you is he who learns

the Quran Sharif and teaches it.”

(Bukhari)

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ثنا شعبة قال أخبرنى علقمة بن مرثد سمعت سعد بن عبي باب خيركم من تعلم القرآن وعلمه اج بن منهال حد ثنا حج دة عن أبى حد

حمن السلمى عن عثمان « علمه خيركم من تعلم القرآن و » قال -صلى هللا عليه وسلم -عن النبى -رضى هللا عنه -عبد الر

يبخار


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The Selection of Allah

Today I have the good fortune of addressing those children who

the Lord of the Universe has chosen and selected to recite and to

learn His Kalaam1. In this world if a King gives someone a job or

some work or he accommodates him in his palace, that person (the

recipient) regards it as an honour that he has been selected to work

in the palace of the King. Little does he realise, that whilst working

in the palace of the King, he is kept under careful surveillance via

cameras and security as far as his conduct is concerned.

Similarly, Allah has selected us to learn the Qur’an Sharif and

we need to understand that Allah is constantly supervising and

monitoring us, that I have selected this person, I have chosen him

for my Great Kalaam1 and My Speech. How is he conducting

himself?

Allah has selected them to learn the Qur’an Sharif and therefore

they should have this constant fikr and concern that I should not

be making any mistake.

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1. Kalaam – Word


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I have been selected and Allah is constantly monitoring and

supervising me. I should not make any mistake and any error lest

this great ni’mat1 and bounty be snatched away from me.

It should not happen that because of my mistakes and errors, I am

then taken out of the madrasah and thereby deprived of learning

this great glorious Kalaam2.

Our duty is to teach. Allah is the One who makes the children

memorise the Qur’an Sharif and allows it to settle into their minds.

Sometimes you will find a student spending a lengthy period of

time trying to learn the Qur’an Sharif but unfortunately it doesn’t go

into his mind untill eventually the ustaad (teacher) has to say that

this child rather goes to the Aalim section because he is unable to

cope in the hifz section. He is unable to learn. However, this is

something which is actually very rare because Allah Kalaam2 is

such, that He has made it easy for purposes of memorising. This

Qur’an is such that whoever makes that effort and that mehnat3,

Allah makes the Qur’an Sharif easy for him.

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1. Ni’mat – Bounty | 2. Kalaam – Word | 3. Mehnat – Effort


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Allah accepts him. Allah opens up for him.

The person who is working for the King, is also concerned that he

should not be speaking to any person outside. Perhaps my

speaking to such a person may upset the King, consequently, I

may be asked to leave the palace of the King. Similarly, a person

who is learning the Qur’an Sharif, should constantly have this fikr1

and this concern that I should not be speaking to such people and

interacting with such people due to which, Allah will become

upset.

This is the Kalaam of Ahkamul Hakimeen2. This is the Kalaam of

the King of all Kings. This is the Kalaam3 of the Greatest. What a

great bounty it is to actually be memorising and learning this

Kalaam3 of Allah !

The parents are also worthy of being congratulated for enrolling

their children into the madrasah so that they can learn the Qur’an

Sharif. This world is a place of examination and we will never truly

understand the value of the Qur’an Sharif in this world.

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1. Fikr – Concern | 2. Ahkamul Hakimeen – The Greatest of all Rulers | 3. Kalaam – Word


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However, when the person goes two feet beneath the ground, he

will understand what a great treasure this Qur’an Sharif really is.

Similarly, you find that if the parents have two children. The one

child is in school and the other child is engaged and engrossed in

the memorisation of the Qur’an Sharif, the parents need to be more

concerned and making more fikr for the child who is learning and

memorising the Qur’an Sharif. One of the reasons for this, is that

the child who is memorising the Qur’an Sharif, will Insha Allah be

going into Jannah himself and will also have another ten passports

of those family members upon whom Jahannum was Waajib1. He

will actually be able to intercede on their behalf and take them into

Jannah.

Hazrat Moulana Badre Aalam Mirti (R.A) from Madinah

Munawwarah, who passed away in Madinah Munawarrah and is

buried in Jannatul Baqi2. His grave was opened on three occasions

and on all three occasions his body was absolutely intact. The

Saudi government was amazed at this and therefore placed an

indication there. They call him Shaykh Hindi. They realised that

this must be some great wali of Allah .

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1. Waajib – Mandatory/Compulsory | 2. Jannatul Baqi – Graveyard of Madinah


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Nevertheless, our Hazrat Shah Abrarul Haq Saheb (R.A) decided

to investigate and found out from the family of Moulana Badre

Aalam Saheb (R.A) what action was it that Moulana had engaged

in, that the ground did not consume and devour his body. To such

an extent that no worm had touched even his hand. His wife

responded that she felt there was one action because of which this

has occurred. He would not even stretch his feet towards the Hafez

of the Qur’an Sharif even though that Hafez of the Qur’an Sharif

was a little child.

Now I ask you in today’s time, do we even consider such things?

This will only be created when one has the greatness of the Qur’an

Sharif within one’s heart. When a person has the greatness of the

Qur’an Sharif within his heart, you will find these kinds of actions

emanating.

These are aspects of divine love. These talks being delivered, are

talks of divine love. It is matters of divine love. A person who has

been blessed with divine love will understand this.


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The Student Is a Prince

Once again, these children are extremely fortunate, who have

been selected and chosen for the memorisation and the recitation

of the Qur’an Sharif and Insha Allah thereafter they will teach this

Qur’an Sharif to others. Each student will Insha Allah have another

15 students until eventually on the day of Qiyaamah1 each Hafez

will have hundreds and thousands of students following him. What

a great form of Sadaqa–e- Jariya2 (perpetual reward) this is.

However, unfortunately people do not appreciate these things. A

person merely says that he is doing hifz in the madrasah. It is

something totally insignificant. Ask ourselves the question? Whose

word is he memorising? The rank and status of learning and

memorising the Qur’an Sharif can only be understood in the

Akhirah3. That is why our Shaykh Hazrat Moulana Abraul Haq

Saheb (R.A) used to say that we should consider these students

in our madrasah as princes. Therefore, the prince should not be

hit; a prince should not be hurt.

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1. Qiyaamah – Day of Judgement | 2. Sadaqa–e- Jariya - Perpetual reward | 3. Aakhirah –

Hereafter


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We should teach the Qur’an Sharif with love and kindness because

our duty is to teach them. Allah is the One who makes the

children memorise the Qur’an Sharif and allows it to settle into their

minds.

Psychological Treatment

The great grandson of the nawab of Hyderabad went to the

madrasah. He however, had some foul behaviour to such an extent

that he would swear and had the habit of vulgar language. He

would use vulgar language against his very own teachers until

eventually he was brought to Hazrat Hardoi1 (R.A). People were

absolutely helpless in reforming him. They said “Hazrat, we have

taken him to all the madaaris in India, and he has failed

everywhere. We are requesting you in some way or the other to

reform this child.” He was previously taken to Mazaahirul Uloom,

Deoband and to all the madaaris. Finally, he was brought before

Hazrat. Hazrat then called the Qari Saheb and instructed him to

teach this child without hitting him at all. The Qari Saheb agreed

and the first day while this child was reciting the Qur’an Sharif, he

made some mistakes.

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1. Hazrat Hardoi – Refers to Ml Abrarull Haq Sb of Hardoi (A place in India)


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The Qari Saheb picked up the cane to hit the child and hadn’t yet

hit him, when suddenly this child began hurling abusive and vulgar

language towards the Qari Saheb. Qari Saheb immediately

stopped and was horrified at the amount of vulgarity which

emanated from this child. He went to Hazrat and said, “I merely

picked up the cane and didn’t even hit him, when he already hurled

so much vulgarity towards me in one breath”. Hazrat Hardoi

mentioned to him that this child has come in with this sickness.

“Call for a glass of water and at 12 o clock daily while you have a

break ask all the children to blow into that water. Ask all the

children to make dua that: O Allah this child has got an evil habit

of swearing. O Allah you give him the taufeeq1 to give up this evil

habit of swearing”. After three days of doing this amal, the Qari

Saheb could say what he wanted to say to this boy, but the boy

would not open his mouth at all. He wouldn’t even move his lips.

Qari Saheb then asked this child: “Why are you not swearing any

longer when you had the bad habit of swearing?”

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1. Taufeeq – Courage


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He replied, “You see. These children are spitting in the water and

I do not want to drink the saliva of these children. I am the great

grandson of a nawab, where am I going to consume the saliva of

others.”

This was a Nafsiyaati Ilaaj1 and a type of psychological treatment.

He thought to himself that I was the son of a nawab of Hyderabad.

The Nawab was extremely wealthy in those days. The wealth he

had was even more than what some governments had. For about

20/22 years he would spend on the entire Saudi government.

That’s the kind of wealth he had. Alhamdulillah this child became

a Hafez of the Qur’an without any hiding or punishment

whatsoever.

Yes one may create awe in the students. That is essential. Create

awe and respect within the students without hitting the students.

For example, make the child face the wall whilst reciting the Qur’an

Sharif because if the child is going to face the direction of the class

then the child is not going to learn. He is going to look on either

side. However, when you make the child face the wall to learn it

will become easier for the child to learn in that way.

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1. Nafsiyaati Ilaaj – Psychological treatment


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Qari Ameer Hasan was a senior Khalifa of Shaykh Moulana

Zakariyya (R.A), and thereafter he renewed his bay’ah1 upon the

hands of Shah Abrarul Haq Saheb (R.A). He once took me into his

classroom. Two children started reciting the Qur’an Sharif. One of

them made a mistake. Qari Saheb immediately cried out and said:

“O Allah! It is because of my weakness and because of my

wrongdoing that this child is making a mistake”. When he said this

and started crying, the student immediately grabbed the legs of the

ustaad and said, “ Qari Saheb give me a chance, I will go back and

in 2 minutes I will learn it again.” We were just finishing our cup of

tea and the child came back again and recited without any mistake

whatsoever. Qari Saheb said: “These two children are my

nephews and normally a person can reprimand and hit his

nephews. However, because Hazrat Hardoi (R.A) has prohibited

us from hitting, this is the technique that has been used”. He would

wake up at the time of Tahajjud, turn to Allah , saying: “O Allah!

You have given these children to us, O Allah! Open up their minds

towards the memorisation of the Qur’an Sharif”.

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1. Bay’ah – Pledge of allegiance at the hand of a Shaykh amongst others, to fulfil the

commands of Allah and abstain from prohibitions.


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He would also say that the Ustaad who does not wake up at night

and does not read 2 rakaats and cry for his students, it is not even

permissible for him to be a teacher. The Ustaad should have such

a Kayfiyat1 whilst teaching the Qur’an Sharif: (addressing himself)

“O Allah, how fortunate I am to be teaching this Qur’an Sharif!”

Corporal Punishment

Hazrat Moulana Raipuri (R.A); who was the Shaykh of Hazrat

Moulana Zakariyya (R.A); had one Qari Saheb who would give a

lot of hiding. He was from Panipat and the people from Panipat

were renowned for the excessive hiding and punishment that they

would mete out to the children. The stick being kept was such that

it would make a kind of sound whilst passing it through the air and

when it would make contact with the body, sometimes the flesh

would be separated and opened due to the stick being used. The

people of the locality sent some notes to Hazrat that this is your

student. He has a relationship with you but unfortunately he beats

up the children in a very brutal manner. If you could kindly advise

him.

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1. Kayfiyat – Feeling and attitude


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Hazrat searched and purchased a very good quality stick, that was

also renowned to make that sound and then handed it over to him

and said: “This is a gift to you. Use this to hit the children; to beat

them up”. He became very pleased that my Shaykh is giving me

permission. He is giving me a certificate, and is granting me full

permission to beat up the children. When he was leaving the

Shaykh said, “Wait let me finish what I am saying. On the day of

Qiyaamah you will have to give account for whatever hiding and

punishment you mete out to the children. Consider the following:

You are 40 years old. Before you hit any child, take the stick and

hit yourself on the thigh. Then tell yourself that my age is 40 and

this child is 10 years old. How hard should I be hitting this child?

You need to be very careful and give a proper account and

calculation.” He departed and after 3 months Hazrat had an ijtima.

Qari Saheb presented himself before Hazrat. Hazrat asked him

how he was keeping and how was the situation with the children.

How were they learning the Qur’an Sharif? He replied: “Hazrat, I

don’t sleep at night because both my thighs are absolutely red. My

wife tries to massage it and she too is giving up. What happens

before I hit any child when they make mistakes and make me angry

is that I hit my thigh and in that process my entire anger cools off,

and in that way my thighs have become such”.


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Hakeemul Ummah Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi (R.A) mentioned an

incident from the time of Nabi . As they were passing by a grave,

Nabi mentioned that this person was being punished because

he had hit a kitten. The offspring of a cat. Hazrat Thanwi (R.A)

mentioned that Allah was giving athaab1 to this person because

he had punished and hit the offspring of a cat. What about that

person who punishes and hits the offspring and child of a human

being! Therefore, this is an extremely important issue.

Maintain Respect and Awe

We should maintain a level of awe and respect amongst our

students. Alhamdulillah at our madrasah we have a few asaatizah2

who have never hit the children, yet the children have such awe

and respect for them that if they just open their eyes and look at

the child, the child becomes anxious. These ustaads1 sit in the

classroom extremely seriously and in that way, you find the

children come one after the other and give their work until the time

is over and Alhamdulillah when they complete their Qur’an Sharif

that very same year they are on the musallah performing

Taraweeh.

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1. Athaab – Punishment | 2. Ustaad / Assatiza – One Teacher / Many Teachers


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When the ustaad is outside with his friends, he is smiling and

laughing but within the class we find that he is serious and

maintains that awe. Therefore we should not be giving any hiding.

Yes, it would be acceptable if a person gives a small little slap on

the back of the neck with a rounded hand, so that the sound is loud

yet there is no real pain. In that way it will create an atmosphere of

awe and discipline in the children towards the teacher.

Love and Compassion

In reality, we need to understand that our duty is to teach the

students and not to pounce upon them. The more love and

compassion we implement whilst teaching, the more the children

will love and respect us. Qari Ameer Hasan Saheb; a very thin,

small person who came to this country as well; annually is taken

by his students for Umrah or Hajj and wherever he is, you will find

that his students are engaged in serving him. This is because from

the very start he taught his students with such compassion and

such love. This was then the outcome. Nowadays one will often

find a person has 5 children and 4 of them are in the school whilst

1 is doing hifz. At the end of the term when the children come home

for holiday, the 4 children will come with gifts from the school. This

hifz child comes home and when questioned what gift did he


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receive from his teacher and madrasah, he replies: “See these 5

finger marks on my face. This is the gift that I received from my

madrasah”.

My respected father would say that we should teach with such love

and compassion that each child that we teach, will go back and

bring another 50 children to the madrasah due to the love and

compassion being witnessed within the madrasah. That child will

mention to the other children: "I am learning in the madrasah and

on every letter I am getting 10 rewards. I am accumulating reward

upon reward. From the morning to the evening I am accumulating

reward upon reward. When I recite my sabaq1 I am getting

rewards, when I am reciting my sabaq dhor2 I am getting rewards.

I am reciting my dhor1 I am getting so many rewards. How much

reward are you getting whilst you are learning in this school?” That

child in the school will say that I am not getting any reward

whatsoever. He will say: “On the day of Qiyaamah I will be having

such a vast treasure of rewards, what rewards will you be getting?”

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1. Sabaq/Sabaq Dor/Dor – Various areas of the Quran Sharif being memorised/revised


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In this way, the child will be so convincing that the other child will

say: “I rather also go to the madrasah so that I can get this rewards

and treasures of the Akhirah”.

Around 1968 whilst I was in the madrasah of Hazrat Hardoi

(nawarrallahu markadahu), he would wake up quietly in the

morning and go around in the madrasah and supervise the children

in the boarding. One night I was sleeping whilst it was extremely

cold. Due to the extreme cold I had my feet tucked in. Upon

awakening I found that there was a warm blanket placed over me.

I enquired from Moulana Shuaib Saheb who was present there at

the time as to how this blanket came over me. He said: “Hazrat

saw you were feeling cold and went to his respected wife

requesting where the blankets were. He personally took the ladder

and climbed up, took the blanket, gently placed the blanket over

you in such a way that there was no disturbance to your sleep and

nobody came to know of it”. What kind of love and compassion he

displayed towards the students.


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Alternate Disciplinary Techniques

The punishments which Hazrat would generally mete out to the

students would be 10 rakaats or 20 rakaats of Salaah. By doing

this the student would get the opportunity to do exercise and

together with that it would be very hard on him because he would

have to read 10 rakaats. An ustaad would be sitting behind and

watching over him and in one corner he would be performing this

10 rakaats or 20 rakaats. The other students would walk past and

they would see this happening. Everybody would come to know

that this student has done something wrong and that is why he is

getting some form of punishment. This would then stop him from

doing the misdemeanour that he had done. He would think to

himself that I don’t want to be reading another 10 rakaats tomorrow

and eventually would stop this misbehaviour. This would also be

the punishment for the salikeen1; those who would come to Hazrat

Hardoi (R.A) for the purpose of their reformation.

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1. Saalikeen – Those who have come for their spiritual reformation


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They would also get this kind of punishment if they had committed

some misconduct. Sometimes some of them would be performing

up to 100 rakaats. This is how Hazrat would cure the salikeen of

their sicknesses.

However, if somebody immediately sought forgiveness and said,

“Hazrat I have made a mistake and Insha Allah in the future I will

not repeat the same error”, Hazrat would immediately forgive that

person. Hazrat Hardoi (R.A) mentioned that unfortunately some

Ulama have a weakness of refusing to accept their errors due to

which they are neither able to progress nor do they make a

resolution not to repeat the same error again.


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Correct Our Athaan And Salaah

Masha Allah, we have come to this madrasah and we can see that

even the athaan has been given correctly. The Iqaamah has been

given correctly according to the sunnah. Generally you will find that

in Iqaamah this mistake is made – Qad Qaamatis Salaatu Qad

Qaamatis Salaat or Hayaa alas Salaati Hayaa alas Salaah. This is

a common error and mistake. Allamah ibn Aabideen Shami (R.A)

has mentioned “ إ ا م زر ج ة ام ق لر ” – Iqaamah should be recited with a

sukoon (jazm).

Alhamdulillah here we see that the students are taught to perform

the Salaah in the sunnah manner.Wherever these students will go,

people will recognise that these are the students of that particular

madrasah. Until now if a person looks at the offspring and the

produce of the madrasah of Hardoi one will see that effect. Once I

had the opportunity of going to Bangladesh and I delivered a talk

there. Prior to the talk I noticed one of the brothers performing

Salaah with a lot of tranquillity, slowly getting up from his ruku,

standing upright and going into the other postures correctly. After

the bayaan I mentioned that you need to call the brother over to

me as there is some attrition to him. I have a feeling he has gone


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to Hardoi or has spent some time there. The locals insisted that he

is an ordinary businessman, who hasn’t gone there. Anyway after

the bayaan they brought him to me. He embraced me and after

making inquiries he confirmed that he had spent 40 days in Hardoi

and Hazrat had taught him very stringently how to perform the

Salaah according to sunnah and this was the effect of that.

A person came to Haji Imdadulllah Muhajir e Makki (nawarrallahu

marqadahu) and mentioned that he saw a dream of the maidens

of Jannah and they were all blind. He asked Hazrat as to why he

had received maidens of Jannah that were blind. Hazrat inquired

from him that whilst performing Salaah do you perhaps close your

eyes. He replied: “Yes Hazrat I do close my eyes whilst performing

Salaah so that I can increase my concentration”. Hazrat replied:

“Perform your Salaah according to the sunnah. In that you will get

your devotion in your Salaah”.

Salaah should always be performed according to the sunnah and

every action being done in Salaah should be in accordance to the

sunnah. Nowadays you will find a person being appointed as a

supervisor/monitor of students performing his Salaah and quietly

looking from side to side at the children. He is trying to supervise


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that their Salaah is correct. Even the children laugh at this person

who is looking around in his own Salaah!

Cellphones in Salaah

How often we find that the cell phone will ring in Salaah. Is it really

necessary for us to put a ringtone in the cell phone? Can’t we put

it on vibration mode. I also have a mobile phone and up to now no

one has ever heard my phone ever ringing. People also ask me:

“Don’t you keep a cell phone?” I say I keep a cell phone but I keep

my cell phone deaf and dumb. We should be very particular about

this. There was one imaam who kept his cell phone in his top

pocket inside the pouch and as soon as he commenced his

Salaah, his phone started ringing. He had the ring tone of Shaykh

Sudais. As soon as he started his takbeer Shaykh Sudais started

reciting Surah Fateha (Alhamdulillah Rabbil Aalimeen)! This

continued and this Imam had to use only one hand to switch the

phone off and until eventually the Salaah had to be broken. Not

only did he have to apologise to the people for forgetting to put the

phone on silent mode but also for the rendering the Salaah null

and void. Not only is the person’s Salaah being disturbed but the

Salaah of others is being disrupted and spoilt.


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As soon as this cell phone rings the connection between oneself

and Allah gets lost. One great friend of Allah states that when

I raise my hands to my ears, as soon as I drop it down it is as if my

entire body is being raised to the Arsh1 of Allah . Thereafter when

he would recite Subhanakalla Humma……… a certain feeling

would overcome him with every letter. It would be as if he was

standing before Allah and that spiritual feeling and ihsaan2

would overcome him as if the person is worshipping Allah whilst

seeing Him.

We make dua that Allah blesses us all with this feeling.

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1. Arsh – Throne of Allah Ta’aala | 2. Ishaan – A spiritual state where when is overwhelmed

with the consciousness of Allah Ta’aala


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In some places, unfortunately when the phone rings, people

answer it in Salaah saying: “I am in Salaah”. He has rendered his

Salaah null and void. A board should be placed in the masaajid

and an announcement should be made that cell phones should not

be switched on. When a person goes to a cabinet meeting or a

parliamentary meeting all cell phones are gathered upon entry and

names are written so that there is no disruption in the meeting

itself. This is the house of the King of all Kings! We should be

conscious of our cell phones. Whilst making wudhu, we should be

particular about our cell phones and ensure that we have turned it

into the right mode, silent mode so that we are prepared well in

advance for Salaah.

It is mentioned that close to Qiyaamah, a time will come when

everyone will have music and singing with them. Today we find

that in the person’s pocket they have these musical ringtones.

What is the need in the first place to have musical ringtones on

one’s cell phone? May Allah protect us from this.


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Respect for the Quran Sharif within the Heart

As for these children who are doing Hifz, we make dua that may

Allah make them all pious. May Allah bless them all with the

nisbat1 and the connection with Allah and make them sahib-e-

nisbat1. May Allah Ta’ala accept them for His Deen. May Allah

Ta’ala bless them with the connection with Allah. There was a hafiz

in the time of my late respected father and wherever he would walk

and whenever he would come out of the masjid, Ulama would

respect him and the people of the locality would say Hafez Saheb

is coming home. They would all have respect for him. He would

put his head down and walk straight to the masjid, engaging

himself in Salaah. My respected father would explain that because

the azmah2 and respect for the Qur’an Sharif was in his heart,

everybody was respecting him. Today we find that we don’t have

that azmah2 and connection with Allah . We are not connected

to Allah even in our Salaah. A person will be engaged in chit

chat until the imaam is going into ruku.

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1. Nisbat – A strong bond and with Allah Ta’aala | 2. Azmah - Greatness


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May Allah keep this institute established till the day of

Qiyaamah. May Allah assist these huffaaz to rapidly and swiftly

complete their memorisation of the Qur’an Sharif.

Advice to Huffaaz

Those students whose memories are weak, the ustaad should

advise them that after the Salaah they should recite 3 or 7 times

Ya Aleemu ( ي ا ع لإيرم).

Insha Allah they will start quickly memorising their sabaq.

Whatever is difficult will become easy for them because this is the

name of Allah which has a tremendous effect. Secondly, they

should be very particular with regards to Taqwa. Nafs1 and

shaitaan2 work harder on the student who is becoming hafez-e-

Qur’an. Generally you will find when the child completes 5 paras,

nafs1 and shaitaan2 start troubling the person. When the person

reaches 25 paras, shaitaan2 invests all his efforts and resources

into making him completely abandon the memorisation of the

Qur’an Sharif.

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1. Nafs – Ones ego | 2. Shaitaan – The devil


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We therefore need to make them understand that they should not

give up. They should be absolutely courageous and brave at that

time to withstand the onslaughts of nafs and shaitaan because he

knows that every hafez will be taking 10 people into Jannah. The

student too will realise that I have to make this extra effort and

wrestle shaitaan and try and overcome him because he wants to

cause me to deviate.

Conclusion

May Allah grant this institute acceptance and may Allah

accept Qari Saheb and his progeny for the service of the Qur’an

Sharif and may Allah accept all of us for the service of His Deen

with sincerity and ikhlaas1 till Qiyaamah. If a person has got

ikhlaas1 then everything will be accepted and if he doesn’t have

ikhlaas1, nothing will be accepted.

وارخ دعوانا ان الحمد هلل رب العلمين

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1. Ikhlaas – Sincerety


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